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2006 Al Jazeera launches Al Jazeera English

2005 Peter Foy, English Actor

2005 Derek Bailey, English Musician

2005 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

2004 Bernard Levin, English Journalist

2004 Peter Barnes, English Playwright

2004 John Maynard Smith, English Scientist

2004 Graham Roberts, English Actor

2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97

2003 Winston Graham, English Novelist

2003 Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian

2002 George Porter, English Scientist

2001 Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet

2001 George Carman, English Lawyer

2000 Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet

1999 Ashley Montague, English Scientist

1998 Monica Edwards, English Writer

1998 Frank Muir, English Writer

1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards

1997 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn and Geoffrey Rush

1996 Kenneth Muir, english scholar, dies at 89

1996 Frank Whittle, English Inventor

1996 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69

1995 Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81

1995 Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 59

1995 Holland's debut in English domestic comp (vs. Northants, NatWest)

1995 Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75

1995 Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61

1995 David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52

1995 Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76

1995 Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75

1995 Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85

1995 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86

1995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84

1995 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia), dies at 88

1995 Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79

1995 Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65

1995 James Meade, English Economist

1995 John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael and his Circle), dies at 73

1995 Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57

1994 John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66

1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65

1994 Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64

1994 Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69

1994 Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77

1994 1st trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel

1994 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80

1994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75

1994 Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70

1994 Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83

1994 John Britton, English Mathematician

1994 Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82

1994 John Wain, English Poet

1994 John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44

1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team

1994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84

1994 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52

1993 Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75

1993 Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63

1993 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49

1993 Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91

1993 Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63

1993 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61

1993 Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80

1993 Rene Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80

1993 Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46

1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat

1993 Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46

1993 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84

1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80

1993 Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67

1993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61

1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46

1993 Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3

1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies

1993 Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64

1993 Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94

1993 Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies

1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82

1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys

1993 Peter Quennell, English Writer

1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language

1992 Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87

1992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77

1992 Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies

1992 Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94

1992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies

1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70

1992 Marina CAK Windsor, granddaughter of English prince Edward

1992 Helen Windsor (daughter of English prince Edward) weds Timothy Taylor

1992 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies

1992 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant

1991 Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44

1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)

1990 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78

1990 Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies

1990 Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies

1990 Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra

1990 Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher

1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87

1989 John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52

1989 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80

1989 Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies

1989 John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies

1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82

1988 Edward EMG baron Downpatrick, grandson of English prince Edward

1988 Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73

1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal

1988 Rupert Grint, English Actor

1988 Michael Ramsey, English Clergyman

1988 Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies

1988 English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli

1987 Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel

1987 Tom Felton, English Actor

1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it

1987 Joss Stone, English Musician

1987 Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65

1987 Gerald Brenan, English writer, dies at 92

1986 Harold MacMillan, English Politician

1986 Henry Reed, English Writer

1986 Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62

1986 Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist, dies at 88

1986 Diana Cooper, English Celebrity

1986 Dora Russell, English Celebrity

1986 Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75

1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead

1986 David Cecil, English Writer

1985 Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90

1985 Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63

1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)

1985 Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies

1985 Keira Knightley, English Actress

1985 Wayne Rooney, English Athlete

1985 Jack Osbourne, English Celebrity

1985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English lt-general (A Full Life), dies at 89

1984 John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89

1984 Michel Foucault, English Historian

1984 Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84

1984 Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer

1984 Kelly Osbourne, English Actress

1983 Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80

1983 Beverley Nichols, English Writer

1983 Christopher Parker, English Actor

1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel

1983 Jennifer Ellison, English Actress

1983 William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80

1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England

1982 Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92

1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel

1982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93

1982 Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86

1982 Colin Chapman, English Inventor

1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel

1981 Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)

1981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)

1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel

1981 Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael

1981 Jamelia, English Musician

1980 John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32

1980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77

1980 Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

1980 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel

1980 Steven Gerrard, English Athlete

1980 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23

1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

1980 Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard

1980 Dixie Dean, English Athlete

1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach

1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel

1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min

1979 Jonny Wilkinson, English Athlete

1979 Sophie Ellis Bextor, English Musician

1979 Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael

1979 Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52

1979 Kelly Brook, English Model

1979 Michael J. Owen, English Athlete

1978 Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin

1978 Will Champion, English Musician

1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m

1978 English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz

1978 Rebecca Loos, English Celebrity

1978 Frank Lampard, English Athlete

1978 Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist

1978 Rachel Stevens, English Musician

1978 Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73

1978 Rio Ferdinand, English Athlete

1977 Lady Davina EAB Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard

1977 Richard Addinsell, English composer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 73

1977 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies

1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires

1977 Samantha Morton, English Actress

1977 E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70

1977 Orlando Bloom, English Actor

1976 Anna Friel, English Actress

1976 Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84

1976 Dan Hawkins, English Musician

1975 Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86

1975 Scott Speedman, English Actor

1975 Melanie Brown, English Musician

1975 Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72

1975 David Beckham, English Actor

1975 Robbie Fowler, English Athlete

1975 Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83

1975 Melanie Blatt, English Musician

1975 Gary Neville, English Athlete

1975 Julian S Huxley, English scholar/dir-gen (UNESCO), dies at 87

1975 Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93

1974 Alexander PGR duke of Ulster, son of English prince Richard

1974 Lisa Snowdon, English Model

1974 Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82

1974 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74

1974 Matt Lucas, English Actor

1974 Andrew English, CFL receiver for the BC Lions

1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91

1974 Tom Jenkinson, English Musician

1974 Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

1974 Melanie Chisholm, English Musician

1973 Rachel Kathleen English, Thomaston, Georgia, Miss America-Georgia 1996

1973 W. H. Auden, English Poet

1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

1973 Stan Worthington, English cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1930-36), dies

1973 Kate Beckinsale, English Actress

1973 Jamie Redknapp, English Athlete

1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season

1973 Lee Westwood, English Athlete

1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73

1973 Paula Radcliffe, English Athlete

1973 Henry Green, English Novelist

1973 Saffron Burrows, English Actress

1972 Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)

1972 Claire Forlani, English Actress

1972 Wentworth Miller, English Actor

1972 King Edward VIII, English Royalty

1972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80

1972 C. Day Lewis, English Poet

1972 Steve McManaman, English Athlete

1972 Sandrine Holt, English Actress

1972 Catherine McCormack, English Actress

1971 Mackenzie Crook, English Actor

1971 Martin Freeman, English Actor

1971 Richard D. James, English Musician

1971 Paul Bettany, English Actor

1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel

1971 Ian Walker, English Athlete

1970 Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91

1970 Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77

1970 Alan Shearer, English Athlete

1970 John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70

1970 John Barbirolli, English conductor (New York Philharmonic Orch), dies at 70

1970 Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent

1970 Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67

1970 E. M. Forster, English Novelist

1970 Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61

1970 New English Bible published

1970 Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82

1970 Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74

1970 Beth Orton, English Musician

1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)

1969 Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88

1969 F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76

1969 Jay Kay, English Musician

1968 Andy Caddick, English cricket pace bowler, NZ 1993

1968 Granville English, composer, dies at 69

1968 George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies

1968 Chris Boardman, English cyclist, world 1 hour record

1968 Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist, Charlatans-Only One I Know

1968 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71

1968 Ed O'Brien, English Musician

1968 Damon Albarn, English Musician

1968 Daniel Craig, English Actor

1968 Alex James, English Musician

1968 Thom Yorke, English Musician

1967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies

1967 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), dies at 72

1967 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80

1967 Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34

1967 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80

1967 "News at 10" premieres on English TV

1967 Noel Gallagher, English Musician

1967 Paul Ince, English Athlete

1967 Guy Pearce, English Actor

1966 Marina V. A. Mowatt, [Ogilvy], daughter of English princess Alexandra

1966 Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94

1966 Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire

1966 Heston Blumenthal, English Celebrity

1966 Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64

1966 Samantha Fox, English Model

1966 Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer, Around the World

1966 Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66

1966 Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer, Sundays-Can't Be Sure

1966 Russell Watson, English Musician

1965 William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91

1965 J. K. Rowling, English Author

1965 Barry D, [Iain Bakker], English pop musician, Jesus Jones

1965 Sadie Frost, English Actress

1965 Eleanor Farjeon, English Writer

1965 Simon Fowler, English Musician

1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72

1965 Edward Appleton, English Scientist

1965 VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67

1965 Will Carling, English Athlete

1965 T. S. Eliot, English Poet

1965 Beth Gibbons, English Musician

1964 Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor, Darling How Could You

1964 Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77

1964 Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English

1964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93

1964 Sam Brown, English singer and songwriter, Stop!

1964 Clive Bell, English Critic

1964 Nigel Redman, English rugby international player

1964 Lauren Cowan, born in Benalla, Victoria, golfer, 1994 66th English Womens Open

1964 Bonnie Langford, English actress, Wombling Free

1964 Tim Gane, English Musician

1964 Mark H. Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary

1964 Alan "Reni" Wren, English pop drummer, Stone Roses-Fools Gold

1964 James RB Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra

1964 R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies

1964 Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

1964 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91

1964 Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher

1964 Ian Hart, English Actor

1964 Clive Owen, English Actor

1963 Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69

1963 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87

1963 Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

1963 C. S. Lewis, English Author

1963 Nicolette Sheridan, English Actress

1963 Gay "Mani" Mournfield, English pop bassist, Stone Roses

1963 Jerry de Borg, English pop guitarist, Jesus Jones-Real, Real, Real

1963 Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies

1963 Jarvis Cocker, English Musician

1963 Tracey Emin, English Artist

1963 Harriet Wheeler, English pop singer/composer, The Sundays

1963 Jason Isaacs, English Actor

1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy

1963 David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer, Sundays, Blind

1963 David Thewlis, English Actor

1963 William Beveridge, English Economist

1963 Ian Brown, English rock vocalist, Stone Roses-Made of Stone

1963 Seal, English vocalist/songwriter, Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose

1963 Rob Andrew, English rugby player

1963 Jazzie B, [Beresford Romeo], English rapper, Soul II Soul-Feel Free

1963 Caron Wheeler, English singer, Soul II Soul-Keep on Movin'

1963 Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60

1963 Paul Brindley, English pop bassist, Sundays, Can't Be Sure

1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63

1962 John Squire, English pop guitarist, Stone Roses, She Bangs the Drums

1962 Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker

1962 Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician

1962 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86

1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)

1962 George P N earl of St. Andrews, under English prince Edward

1962 John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82

1962 Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist

1962 Stuart Pearce, English Coach

1962 Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary

1961 David AC viscount Linley, son of English princess Margaret/mystic

1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 min

1961 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles)

1961 [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88

1961 Boy George, English Musician

1961 Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer, Wild World

1961 English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley

1961 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81

1961 Ricky Gervais, English Writer

1961 Ranking Roger, rock vocalist, English Beat-Drowning

1961 Jeremy Northam, English Actor

1960 Gary Lineker, English soccer player, World Cup 1986

1960 Ashley Ingram, English singer, Fizzz-Just an Illusion

1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78

1960 John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze

1960 Aneurin Bevan, English Politician

1960 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire

1960 Kristin Scott Thomas, English Actress

1960 English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)

1960 Lloyd Honeyghan, English welterweight boxing champ, 1986

1960 Guy Chadwick, English singer and songwriter, House of Love

1960 J. L. Austin, English Philosopher

1960 Matthew Bourne, English Dancer

1959 Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78

1959 Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist, Pet Shop Boys-It's a Sin

1959 Tony Meo, English billiards champion, snookers

1959 Stephen Wolfram, English Scientist

1959 Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78

1959 Joe Elliott, English Musician

1959 Ernest Newman, English Critic

1959 Alan "Wild"er, English rock vocalist/music, Depeche Mode-Wild!

1959 Steven Morrissey, English Musician

1959 Sean Bean, English Actor

1959 Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies

1959 Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69

1959 Stanley Spencer, English Artist

1958 Dave Murray, English pop guitarist, Iron Maiden-Powerslave

1958 Spider Stacy, English rock vocalist, The Pogues

1958 1st women in English House of Lords

1958 Danielle Dax, English Musician

1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85

1958 Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper, mid-80's

1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80

1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80

1958 Mike Gatting, English cricketer

1958 Simon LeBon, English Musician

1958 George Edward Moore, English Philosopher

1958 Christiane Amanpour, English Journalist

1957 Phil Collen, English heavy-metal guitarist, Def Leppard-Love Bites

1957 Stephen Morris, English pop drummer, Joy Division-Atmosphere

1957 Glen Hoddle, English soccer ball player, Tottenham

1957 Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times

1957 Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48

1957 Lee John, English singer and actor, Body Talk

1957 Philip Chevron, English pop musician, Pogues-Peace and Love

1957 Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68

1957 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77

1957 Wyndham Lewis, English Author

1957 Mark E. Smith, English rock vocalist, Fall-Fall in a Hole

1957 Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87

1956 Nigel Kennedy, English violinist

1956 Frederick Soddy, English Scientist

1956 Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84

1956 Jayne Irving, English TV hostess, Live at 3

1956 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist, Joy Division-Transmission

1956 Anne Dudley, English Composer

1956 Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English Journalist

1956 Peter Hook, English rock bassist, New Order-Round and Round, Run

1956 A. A. Milne, English Author

1956 Simon Howard, English large landowner, Castle Howard

1956 Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62

1956 Danny Boyle, English Director

1956 Imelda Staunton, English Actress

1956 Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist, Joy Division

1955 Dave Murray, English pop guitarist, Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast

1955 Paul Simonon, English pop bassist, Clash-Havana 3 AM

1955 Andy Gray, English soccer player

1955 Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist, XTC

1955 "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player, Pogues-Straight to Hell

1955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging

1955 English harbor strike ends

1955 Paul O'Grady, English Comedian

1955 Tim Berners-Lee, English Inventor

1955 Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor

1955 Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer, Clash-Complete Control

1955 Steve Jones, English pop guitarist, Sex Pistols-Mercy

1955 Charlotte Morrison, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1955 Lesley Garrett, English Musician

1955 Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73

1955 R Jeremy H Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary

1955 Joseph McCabe, English Writer

1955 Mark Hollis, English pop musician, Talk Talk, Dum Dum Girl

1954 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54

1954 George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85

1954 Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe, English large landowner

1954 "Maestro" Jimmy Fearnley, English accordionist, The Pogues

1954 7th marquess of Bristol, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1954 Jon Erikson, U.S., 1st to triple cross English Channel, 1981

1954 Joe Jackson, English singer/pianist/composer, The Harder they Come

1954 Tina Charles, English Musician

1954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist, Journey-Open Arms, Bad English

1954 William R Inge, English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93

1954 William R. Inge, English Clergyman

1954 William Ralph Inge, English Clergyman

1954 Dean Inge, English Author

1954 Edward Ka-spel, English singer and songwriter, Legendary Pink Dots

1954 Anthony Minghella, director, English Patient

1953 Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70

1953 Andy "the Clobberer" Ranken, English pop drummer, The Pogues

1953 Andy Partridge, English rock vocalist and guitarist, XTC-Oranges and Lemons

1953 Lucinda Green, English equestrian

1953 Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41

1953 James E Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary

1953 Peter Greenall, English brewer, Greenall Witley

1953 Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

1953 Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary

1952 John Francome, English jockey

1952 Dusty Hare, English rugby player

1952 Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies

1952 Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer

1952 Jack Wild, English Actor

1952 Gerald D. Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding

1952 David Icke, English Athlete

1952 J. D. Nicholas, English guitarist, Heatwave, Commodores

1952 Andrew Motion, English Poet

1952 Clive Anderson, English Entertainer

1952 Sharon Osbourne, English Entertainer

1951 William Waldorf 4th viscount Astor/English large landowner

1951 Gerald Grosvenor, English 6th duke of Westminster/billionaire

1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes

1951 Susan Blackmore, English Writer

1951 Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62

1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75

1951 Everett Morton, rocker, English Beat

1951 Chris Rea, English rock guitarist, Fool If You Think It Is Over

1951 Phil Neal, English soccer player

1950 David H G viscount Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary

1950 Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist, Genesis-Silent Sun

1950 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)

1950 Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23)

1950 Simon Cadell, English actor, Hi-Di-Hi, Pride and Extreme Prejudice

1950 Rowan Williams, English Theologian

1950 Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist, Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes

1949 Nigel Havers, English actor, Dr. Latimer-Don't Wait Up

1949 Mark Knopfler, English rock vocalist and guitarist, Dire Straits

1949 Roger Uttley, English rugby player

1949 Alan White, English rock drummer, Yes, Ramshackled

1949 Karen English, Rep-D-Arizona

1949 Fred Frith, English guitarist, violinist and bassist, Skeleton Crew

1949 David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport

1949 Bill Nighy, English Actor

1949 Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63

1948 Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63

1948 Peter Hammill, English singer and songwriter, Patient

1948 Trevor Brooking, English soccer player

1948 Bill Bruford, English pop drummer, Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis

1948 Terry Pratchett, English Author

1948 Terry Prachett, English Author

1948 Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire

1948 Lord Egremont, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1948 Mike Figgis, English Director

1948 Christopher Moran, English financier/multi-millionaire

1947 Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

1947 Simon Bates, English DJ

1947 Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80

1947 Michael Green, English TV/video producer

1947 Aleister Crowley, English Critic

1947 7th earl of Bradford, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1947 Keith Moon, English rock drummer, Who-I'm A Boy

1947 Camilla Parker Bowles, English Celebrity

1947 Felicity Lott, English soprano, We come to the river

1947 Victoria Beckham, English Musician

1947 Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer, Amstrad

1947 John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1947 Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician

1947 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80

1947 Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77

1947 Bryan Robson, English international soccer star

1946 English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2

1946 Angus Suttie, English potter

1946 Philip Pullman, English Writer

1946 Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer and conductor, dies at 78

1946 Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer, English all-rounder 1972-77

1946 James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69

1946 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

1946 H. G. Wells, English Author

1946 Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi

1946 Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor, TLS

1946 John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62

1946 John Maynard Keynes, English Economist

1946 Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper, 1967-81

1946 Sue Townsend, English Novelist

1946 John Clapham, English Economist

1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing

1946 Jasper Carrott, English comedian, Jane and the Lost City, Detectives

1946 Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire, Hawley-ADT

1946 Anthony Daniels, English Actor

1946 David Green, English TV/video producer

1946 Polly Toynbee, English Journalist

1946 Charles Dance, English Actor

1945 Peter Storey, English Athlete

1945 Margot Asquith, English Author

1945 Viscount Petersham, English large landowner

1945 James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist, Kinks-Mr Pleasant

1945 Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire

1945 Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer, Chinn and Chapman

1945 Bob Henrit, English pop drummer, Kinks-Waterloo Sunset

1945 Alfred Douglas, English Poet

1945 Charles Williams, English Editor

1945 Robert Wyatt, English Musician

1945 Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1945 David Pleat, English Athlete

1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel

1944 Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph

1944 Ian Anderson, English rock singer, Yes-Owner of a Lonely Heart

1944 John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem

1944 Graham Taylor, English Coach

1944 Christopher Needler, English sand industrialist, TCG Materials

1944 Richard A W G, English prince/duke of Gloucester

1944 Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter, Traffic-Something So Strong

1944 Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75

1944 Dave Morgan, English Celebrity

1944 Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian/English writer, Price of Bride

1944 Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71

1944 George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60

1944 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74

1944 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies

1944 Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire

1944 Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots"

1944 Roger Raised, English actor, Nicholas Nickleby

1944 Francis Lee, English Athlete

1944 Roger Daltrey, English rocker, actor, producer, The Who, Tommy

1944 Alan Parker, English actor, Bugsy Malone, Evita

1944 Desmond Nuttall, English educator

1944 John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire

1944 Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post

1943 Tatton Sykes, English baron/large landowner

1943 Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief, Evening News, Manchester

1943 Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey

1943 Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer

1943 Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan

1943 Robert Plant, English rock vocalist, Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love

1943 Charles Saatchi, English magnate, Saatchi and Saatchi

1943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20

1943 Tony Banks, English politician, Lab

1943 Dennis Amiss, cricketer, prolific English batsman

1943 Gordon Black, English industrialist

1943 Terry Eagleton, English Critic

1943 John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies

1943 Howard Wilkinson, English Coach

1943 Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53

1943 Joanna Trollope, English Novelist

1942 William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V

1942 Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1942 Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer, Body Shop

1942 Phil Harris, English carpet manufacturer/multi-millionaire

1942 Jonathan Aitken, English MP

1942 George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews, dies in battle at 39

1942 George Sutherland, English Judge

1942 Michael G C F, English prince of Kent

1942 Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire

1942 Gordon Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer, Body Shop

1942 Brian Jones, [Lewis B Hopkin], English pop guitarist, Rolling Stones

1942 Richard O'Brien, English Actor

1942 Jon Arthur English, composer

1942 John Whittaker, English real estate developer, Peel Holdings

1942 Michael Giles, English Musician

1942 Susan Hill, English playwright, Magic Apple Tree

1942 Christine Keeler, English Model

1942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist, Black Holes and Baby Universes

1941 Alex Ferguson, English Coach

1941 Geoffrey Davies, English actor, Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go

1941 David Wilson, English contractor/multi-millionaire

1941 Alan Mullery, English soccer player

1941 James Bowman, English contratenor

1941 English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran

1941 English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria

1941 Alexander Cockburn, English Lawyer

1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government

1941 English Army breaks German spy codes

1941 Bobby Moore, English Athlete

1941 Vivienne Westwood, English Designer

1941 Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

1941 Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner

1941 Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket keeper (v Aus 1879), dies

1941 Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61

1941 John E. Walker, English Scientist

1940 Jenny Linden, English actress, Hedda, Dr. Who and the Daleks

1940 Glenn English, Rep-D-OK, 1975-

1940 Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends

1940 Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire

1940 David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder, Dutch Soc-Dem

1940 Michael Gambon, English actor, Singing Detective, Paris at Night

1940 Christopher Timothy, English actor, All Creatures Great and Small

1940 John Lennon, English Musician

1940 Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire

1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies

1940 Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64

1940 Chay Blyth, English sailor, Alone in Order to the World

1940 Angela Carter, English Novelist

1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies

1940 Eleanor Fount, English actress, Women in Love, Bedazzled

1940 Jimmy Tarbuck, English comic/golfer

1940 Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1940 Cliff Richard, English Musician

1940 Trevor Nunn, English Director

1939 Christopher Wates, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1939 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents

1939 Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat

1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard

1939 Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire

1939 Tony Budge, English contractor/tank maker/multi-millionaire

1939 [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80

1939 Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist

1939 Gerald Ronson, English multi-millionaire

1939 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director, Emily

1939 Jonathan David Harvey, English composer, Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen

1939 Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer

1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down

1939 Earl of Seafield, [Ginger], English large landowner

1939 Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire

1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire

1939 Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years

1939 Rachel English, London, author, My 1st 500

1939 Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player

1938 Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector

1938 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57

1938 Richard Sharpe, English rugby player

1938 E. V. Lucas, English Writer

1938 Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer, UEI, Paintbox

1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3

1938 Henry Newbolt, English Author

1938 Wilf Corrigan, English/US electronic manufacturer, LSI Logic

1938 Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire

1938 Ivan Twigden, English contractor/multi-millionaire, Twigden PLC

1938 Ann Jones, English Athlete

1937 Stephen Rubin, English attorney/shoe manufacturer, Reebok, Adidas

1937 Betty Carver, wife of English fieldmarshal Bernard Montgomery, dies

1937 Bobby Charlton, English soccer player

1937 Brian Blessed, English actor, King Arthur, High Road to China

1937 William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81

1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54

1937 J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73

1937 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire

1937 Gordon Banks, English Athlete

1937 Frederick Pollock, English Judge

1936 Alexandra HEOC, English princess/daughter of sir Angus Ogilvy

1936 Viscount Mountgarret, [Butler], English large landowner

1936 James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright, Butley

1936 Judith Chalmers, English TV hostess, Wish You Were Here

1936 Frank Hornby, English Inventor

1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies

1936 Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

1936 Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74

1936 Michael Stone, English broker/multi-millionaire, Man Group

1936 A. E. Housman, English Poet

1936 Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire

1936 Harold Innocent, [HS Harrison], English actor, Tall Guy

1936